![]() ![]() ![]() Later a few updates to Asrock z87 Extreme 4 and here it was always good and in addition it was dual bios so safe. What mattered was that the computer was up and running and I didn't touch the BIOS.įor the first time in my life I updated the BIOS on the Gigabyte Z35 and it was a failed update, it seemed to be loaded, but the board did not get up anymore. 15 years ago I somehow lived without updating my bios. The Z490 is already old, today the Z690 came out, they will probably focus on it and the Z490 will even end support soon and there will be no more BIOSes. I do not update myself yet, but I want to learn this method because I do not count on the MSI fix. I understand that this downloaded AFUWIN圆4.EXE is thrown into the same folder on the C drive as the unpacked BIOS. But here we are, approaching 100 cases on this forum, with new ones coming in steadily.Ĭlick to expand.Sorry for the translator. I honestly thought MSI would have a solution sooner. But i've only made this thread as a service, to generate more attention to this problem so it can be fixed sooner, and to hopefully save people from bricking their board. Otherwise i would've maybe attempted that AFUWIN圆4 method in detail and documented it. As i wrote in the original post, i'm using an MSI Z590 (which also has a Flash BIOS Button). So instead of hesitating because of this (nowadays) unusual flashing method, i would hesitate because i wouldn't know for certain that the bricking problem can't still occur.įor me personally, this is theoretical. This is not a much more dangerous method of updating the BIOS or anything, it's just a less convenient one than going through the BIOS or using Live Update. But even that could be solved easily, because the BIOS chip was socketed, i just put in a matching one i bought for cheap and flashed the newest (correct) BIOS file once more. I have done this countless times back in the day, and only once did i ever have a problem, on an ASUS board where i used a wrong BIOS file (it was for a similar model that had one additional letter at the end). Back then, we always used to flash the BIOS by booting to DOS from a floppy disk (which you first had to make bootable by copying some other files onto it), and then typing a certain command like "program.exe biosfile.bin". It's the "old-school" method that was used until maybe 15 years ago.
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